Happy #WplusEBSWednesday!
Reposting this 🙌
Submit your abstracts for the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health by March 1st!
#conferences #WplusEBS #evolution
Do you have a new paper, a new resource, or a useful tip you think would be helpful to members of #WplusEBS?
Drop them in this form or in the comments below so we can promote it in our semi-weekly #WplusEBSWednesday posts!
Have a resource, recommendation, or opportunity you think would benefit our community?
Submit it through this form (or comment below!) so we can feature it in an upcoming #WplusEBSWednesdays post (yes, even your own paper)! (2/2)
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👋 And finishing our intros, I'm @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social, the Student Social Media Officer (& a PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara)!
At W+EBS, I develop social media strategy to grow and connect with our membership, and manage our email, Bluesky, and (newly created) LinkedIn. (1/2)
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👋 Meet Kat, our Student Event Liaison!
@ksheetz.bsky.social is a PhD Candidate at Oakland University working with Dr. Lisa Welling, studying social cognition in the context of online dating.
At W+EBS, she organizes and plans social events at HBES and other conferences. (1/2)
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👋 Meet Sarah, our Secretary!
@anthrosarah.bsky.social is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
As secretary, she helps connect with the evolutionary social sciences community, planning events and collaborating with the team to shape the future of W+EBS. (1/2)
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Why does W+EBS matter to @haneuljang.bsky.social?
“W+EBS provides an inclusive community for women and LGBTQ+ scholars, offering a safe environment to share challenges, support one another, and grow together in evolutionary sciences” (2/2)
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👋 Meet Haneul, our Membership Officer/Treasurer!
@haneuljang.bsky.social is a Research Fellow at @iast.fr, studying women's cooperation among BaYaka foragers.
As Membership Officer, she manages new membership, recruiting new members at conferences and explaining the society. (1/2)
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Why does W+EBS matter to @annepisor.bsky.social?
“Anthropology studies human diversity and W+EBS supports it in the evolutionary behavioral sciences! More people from more backgrounds at the table, doing science – that’s why W+EBS is important to me” (2/2)
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👋 Meet Anne, our incoming Chair!
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
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Why does W+EBS matter to @abbeyepage.bsky.social?
“It creates a supportive, cross-career network that helps people who can struggle to stay in our field and I think our field really needs diversity to thrive too!”
Fun fact: Abbey's "powered by tea and very opinionated spreadsheets” 2/2
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👋 Meet Abbey, our Chair!
@abbeyepage.bsky.social is a lecturer in Psych at @brunelcce.bsky.social ! As chair, she sets the agenda and overall direction of W+EBS to best support our members. She arranges and chairs meetings and hosts W+EBS events at HBES and other conferences. 1/2
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Who’s behind W+EBS? Meet the committee!
After a social media break over the summer, we’re back!
Each day this week, we’ll introduce a different member of the W+EBS committee.
We're all dedicated to helping shape this next chapter of W+EBS for our members :)
Stay tuned for intros!
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That's a wrap on the #HBES2025 #WplusEBS panel!
Thank you to our panelists @robingnelson.bsky.social, @dconroybeam.bsky.social, @siobhancully.bsky.social
And thank you to the #HBES2025 attendees who shaped this conversation.
Read some final takeaways from our panelists: 👇 1/4
And one more!
@siobhancully.bsky.social: "One of the biggest [pieces of advice] is being aware of false urgency and know when you need to take that time for yourself"
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Some more good quotes from the #HBES2025 #WplusEBS panel so far! 👇
@robingnelson.bsky.social "I can't do the work I want to do if I'm not in the room, so I am staying in the room"
@dconroybeam.bsky.social "People that are mutually invested in each other has made surviving [in academia] possible"
Halfway through the #WplusEBS panel (co-hosted by us, the LGBTQ+ Social Networking, and HBES president @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social) ! Some interesting quotes by panelists so far 👇 1/6
We had a great time at the #WplusEBS networking event last night! So great to meet all our community members 💙
Join us for the #WplusEBS #HBES2025 panel.
"Gender and identity in the evolutionary human sciences: Challenges to research and researchers in 2025"
Happening NOW in the event room!
The #WplusEBS networking event is TODAY at 7pm! Come join us for some good conversation and speed-networking.
#WplusEBS is now live on LinkedIn!
We’re building a more inclusive future for women + SGM researchers, and we’d love to have you along. 💙
🖇️ Follow us here: www.linkedin.com/company/w-pl...
And if you know folks in our field who aren’t on Bluesky, let them know we’re on LinkedIn too!
🎉 Coming to #HBES2025?
Join us for “Survival of the Social”, a speed networking event by #WplusEBS!
🗓 June 5th | 🕖 7:00 PM
📍 Byrdcage, 3426 Atlantic Ave, Atlantic City
All are welcome. Come build community with us!
This week at #HBES2025 come hang out with #WplusEBS for networking, community, & ideas & tools for meeting the moment! We'll see you at:
🍹Survival of the Social Mixer - Thurs 7pm at Byrdcage
💬Gender & Identity.. Challenges to Research & Researchers in 2025 - Fri 4:50pm in Event Room (panelists 👇🏻)
Join us at the #WplusEBS panel discussion at #HBES2025:
"Gender and Identity in the Evolutionary Human Sciences: Challenges to Research and Researchers in 2025"
🗓️June 6th
⏰4:50pm
📍Stockton University Campus Event Room
See you there!
🎙️Dr. Dan Conroy-Beam (he/him) (@dconroybeam.bsky.social)
Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UCSB
Expertise: Am I expert in anything? I guess computational modeling of human mating psychology
#HBES2025 #WplusEBS 3/6 👇
🎙️ Dr. Robin Nelson (she/her) (@robinnelson.bsky.social)
Associate Professor in the SHESC at ASU
Expertise: Social Networks, Kin Investment and health outcomes across the lifespan; methods in qualitative behavioral research, and equity and access in research
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